Emile Wamsteker for The Wall Street Journal A PENewark canvasser leaves a "doorknocker" on the doorknob of a residence in the East Ward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Door to Door in Newark] Reference

The silver doorknocker was in the form of a twisted serpent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]

Picture's Caption: Lion-headed doorknocker, 11th century, Southern Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen] Reference

Col. Rooney removed Wilson's Jacuzzi, but kept his riding stirrup doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [James W. Rooney, 65, dies; aide to renegade Texas congressman Charlie Wilson] Reference

"Why, I'll grab yer by the throat and use yer head for a doorknocker," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waste Lands]

But now he wore a beard on his chin and lip of the kind called a "doorknocker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nutrition] Reference

It was the sound of a fist, rather than the metallic click-click-click of the brass doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest]

There was no bell, so Ulrike used the doorknocker, which was shaped like an old-time cine-camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [With No One as Witness]

The doorknocker for Jasperwood is a commanding annunciator; even a Girl Scout sounds like the Gestapo.    From Wordnik.com.  [January – 2010 – The Bleat.] Reference

It's modern day London, and the Greek gods are shacked up in a rundown house, complete with a laurel wreath doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wish List Wednesday #3: "Gods Behaving Badly"] Reference

The ghostly doorknocker, the clanging chains, the terrible figures of ignorance and want – this is the stuff of nightmares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

I received no visit or call from Hillary but both from Obama including an Obama doorknocker hanging on my door on Tuesday morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Mexico Down To The Wire] Reference

It suited him so well that I added a gold tooth with a diamond chip and a bling ring and Goldy got some huge gold doorknocker earrings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art, animals and wunderkammer] Reference

Stopped by Lowe's, finally found the correct bolts for the doorknocker and a few other house items, then snagged groceries on the way home.    From Wordnik.com.  [weekend review: creepy photo lab, looping, DEVO, fried modems, bad CFCs, Goblins and Zombis] Reference

And I am going to clean up my lion's head doorknocker til it shines brilliantly, since it is off the door for the first time in fifteen years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even in a little thing] Reference

Tomorrow morning I'm out and about around Erpingham, Aldborough and Alby and will then spend the afternoon on the doorknocker in North Walsham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference

Leah held her 40 ounce in brown paper bag with tricked out nails, sporting gold doorknocker earring laughing and shit-talking on the street corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Tee: The Designer Who���s Beating the Boys] Reference

She heard him take a deep breath before he opened the door, and she saw a look of pain cross his face as he looked at the doorknocker with "O'Malley" engraved on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man for Marley]

He rang the doorbell again; thinking then that perhaps it was out of order, he knocked his gloved right fist against the white wooden door, not bothering with the brass doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest]

A crape bouquet was tied to the doorknocker with ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dubliners] Reference

As his eyes had rested on the doorknocker next to the restaurant a smile had crossed his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widdershins] Reference

Featured on the front of the holiday card is this hand-sculpted brass doorknocker at the Governor's Mansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference

Below, the decorous hum of Jermyn Street had been broken by the sharp, staccato, metallic beating of a doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! and Other Stories] Reference

"I’ll probably be clinging to the doorknocker," he tells Amis, "but so far I think I can just … let it go".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

RW: Well, I’ve considered making it into a doorknocker or a necklace, but neither one of those options was very practical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzine » Reese Witherspoon] Reference

I was a doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Resident of New Orleans Public Housing Still Waiting] Reference

This would make a good doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice in bazookaland (link roundup)] Reference

Un heurtoir doorknocker in St. Tropez.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Un heurtoir (doorknocker) in St. Tropez.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Oh, and that 48 lb. doorknocker on my finger?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Hollywood… 17 Years Later | Best Week Ever] Reference

Iron bars would have been nice, but I settled on an iron-bound solid oak door with support braces, a ghoulish doorknocker, and a mail slot. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toque] Reference

9) Goatee: 1 basic, 2-3 doorknocker, 4 vandyke, 5-6 imperial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffs Gameblog] Reference

"doorknocker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Truths] Reference

"I lifted the heavy obsidian doorknocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference